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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

They were like, there are literal celestial bodies emitting radio waves out there, and we need to start studying these and measuring these, and we're going to call it radio astronomy.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Is it named after Carl?

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

You mentioned the less than a watt.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Do they have names?

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I know there's like megawatts and kilowatts and all that stuff, gigawatts.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Do they have names for things less than a watt?

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Well, I just meant a sort of a regular interval, like a something watt, like a regi watt.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

No, I'm going to let you hear it in QA when you listen to it.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So great.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I have a future humiliation ahead of me.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

No, no, no, no.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

It was very quick and it was a pretty lame setup by me because it was all just for that dumb joke.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So you have an Easter egg to look forward to.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I can't wait to hear it.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Something that you've said, though, a few times that we want to, again, just sort of hammer home.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

You've said like a lot of noise and you might hear like silence and things like that.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Again, it has nothing to do with sound.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

We're just talking about radio waves, which are, you know, they cast a kind of light, like a radio light, but it's not something that the human eye can see.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So again, not actual sound is what we're talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine if they were tasked with this today, it'd probably be nearly impossible.